FSA enhanced the collection of child support from
noncustodial parents and strengthened federal support for child care,
education, and job training as part of public assistance. However, by
failing to create jobs or address the inadequacy of wages, the FSA
repeated the historic failure of American social policy to link public
assistance with labour markets. Inadequate federal funding and
reluctant state governments has resulted in a new, punitive,
market-directed era of welfare reform. Money aside, the FSA foundered
on the historic separation of welfare from the labour market in
American social policy.

What undermined it, ultimately, was a shift in the
welfare debate. By every indication, public sentiment had
turned harsher and more punitive. New benefits, through FSA,
reflected an out-of-date paternalism, a failed liberal reliance on big
government, rather than on the market principles already being applied
in state and city government, the nonprofit sector, and the private
welfare state.

The FSA strengthened the federal role at the moment
when state governments had begun to clamor for more independence and
authority. By the 1990s, the initiative in welfare reform had shifted
to the states. On the day it was passed, the FSA was already an
anachronism.

American social policy continuously fails to link
public assistance with labour markets. Inadequate federal funding and
reluctant state government buy-ins, along with the notion that
government could - and should - directly intervene in the economy to
ensure adequate employment for its citizens being rejected, has
resulted in ideology rather than reason ruling the day.

My Thoughts

Family Assistance Plan

Implement a negative income tax (Guaranteed
minimum income for all). Eliminate disincentives to work (e.g. child
care, medical)

Education (The Art of Study by Edmond Bordeaux
Szekely)

Techniques of a healthy life, to maintain good
health and prevent disease.

Professional orientation and vocational
improvement.

Leisure and Creative Hobbies.

Family life, sexual harmony, eugenics and child
psychology

Social cooperation and community life.

Right method of thinking.

Spiritual aspect of life and the great
teachings of all ages, philosophy, metaphysics, and religion.

On the basis of giving adequate knowledge and help to
the individual, in this way, do we adequately help him/her to solve
his/her problems in these seven basic departments of life.